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Maybe that'll get them to demolish it.

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A lot of people asking me lately if I have a lawyer. Probably nothing.

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The names hit me with the force of a thousand Proustian madelines. Memory returns as history, immortal.

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"The result is that today's internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy." @jacobsilverman.com on the phenomenology of Slop World. Can't wait for his Musk book.

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Over 10-15 years ago, Tim Pool was my roommate for a brief time. He was lonely, awkward, and perpetually aggrieved. I have found his ascent both baffling and rather reflective of our national politics over the ensuing period.

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lmao

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gostei bastante, especialmente as comparações com arquitetura hostil e esquizofrenia

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I have good news for people looking for the example that best illustrates the current VC/ai landscape.

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Only a fool yearns to be "Verified" by a website rather than being verified by the Lord

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I talked to @maxread.info for @columjournreview.bsky.social about whether "AGI" is really the most important story right now, and who it serves to say that. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

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I'd like to read a Richard Armitage obit that goes long on the Phoenix project and his intel career

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Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

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Crypto fixes this

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“We look forward to being there!”

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Placing my bet on Oliver North

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For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...

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Fortunately these scholars will always have a home at the Jeffrey Epstein Institute For Ethics.

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This morning's must-read is from Jacob Silverman: The last bits of fellowship and ingenuity on the web are being swept away by a tide of so-called artificial intelligence. www.ft.com/content/5d06...

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gildedrage.com

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Among everything else, a refusal under Biden narrowly and (within the Democratic party since at least Clinton broadly) to make an affirmative case for immigrants without conceding to the right's framing means rediscovering due process for all of us when republicans are in power, instead of always.

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“The result is that today’s internet seems to, if not make us actually crazy, make many of us seem crazy. Always connected, always posting and consuming, we resemble madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner”

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This essay by @jacobsilverman.com on living in slop world is a great read - explaining how and why an increasingly 'hostile internet' is driving us crazy... on.ft.com/4k12iLV

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here is some research about the Network State and how it operates (with a lot of details that are missing from mainstream coverage).

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“Amid all this programmed activity, humans rapidly become superfluous placeholders, keeping up the pretence that real people are consuming the slop and watching the ads that now underwrite so much of the consumer internet.” Great piece👇🏽

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This weekend @financialtimes.com Weekend Mag cover — Welcome To The Slop World: how the internet turned hostile. By @jacobsilverman.com illustration by Superfreak

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“Generative AI isn’t designed to produce what we once simply called “facts” but rather an answer that fits into the pattern of reality. This becomes a problem when we ask it to honestly assess the world around us. Then it can become a lying machine.”

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“To be online today means navigating an environment whose design feels adversarial, manipulative; it means wading through toxic slop to get to the thing you want.” Superb essay from @jacobsilverman.com on.ft.com/4inhTDW

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"The demands of the infinite scroll, in short, can no longer be fulfilled by humans alone. This is the animating idea behind “dead internet theory”, which proposes, in a deliberately paranoid style, that much of what passes for the internet is automated, inhuman, bots all the way down."

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Banger of a read, neatly tying various narratives about the cost-of-living-online crisis — enshittification, AI slopification, dead internet theory — into a grander story about the internet becoming a hostile, maddening environment.

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"The internet is now optimised for metrics that have nothing to do with human enjoyment, or convenience, or the profits of anyone except the platform overseers. And it’s only getting worse, as our dependence on these flawed tools grows daily." – @jacobsilverman.com (Archive link below)

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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For the FT, I wrote an essay about why the daily experience of the Internet keeps getting worse, tipping us into madness and conflict. I gather ideas about slop, enshittification, and dead internet theory under what I call "the hostile Internet." www.ft.com/content/5d06...

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Reminds me that I once asked @sonialivingstone.bsky.social what area of public policy we could learn from when thinking about digital life and her answer was ‘town planning’

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